Tea Tips: About Kuding Cha and How to Make It

Have you ever heard about Kuding Cha? This tea is rather unique because the shapes such as spiked punch, but there is also a part like a roll. Kuding cha is also used as a drug to heal the head and eyes. This tea is believed to be able to heal diseases such as colds, flu, itchy eyes and headaches.

How to make

You can put just one piece of a Kuding Cha tea leaf in in 500 ml of water because they are very bitter. Use boiling water as you use it for black tea. After that, the color of water will change into greenery. After that, this tea is originally only one leaf will slowly blossom into three leaf shoots. At the time the leaves blossom is like this, lift and separate the leaves from the water.

Based on modern research, this tea can help blood circulation, lowering blood pressure, decrease the rate of cholesterol. Kuding Cha is also believed to be able to improve liver function and the brain. This tea is also believed to be able to maintain body weight is always in ideal conditions.

This is the tea taste bitter at end of the tongue, but have after taste has a sweet tinge. For those who are not accustomed to drink bitter tea, maybe will not really like taste of this tea.

More about this tea

Little bit more about Kuding Cha, this tea is known as the Chinese Tisane, meaning he was not from the tree Camelia sinensis. Ku in Chinese language means bitter. Ding, is a character letter china shaped like a nail. In English, Kuding cha called spike or nail bitter.

A bit confusing about the leaves of species tree that use from this tea. There are two types of trees that have the same characters, the leaves of the same, but the fact is that they came from 2 different species . The first is from the tree Holly (Ilex species), the second is the tree Wax (Ligustrum species). Around 90 percent Kuding Cha in China using the leaves of Ilex, except in the provinces of Sichuan and some of the leaves used in Japanese Wax.